Laia Abril

Country:

Spain

About artist / group:

Laia Abril is a multi-disciplinary artist working in photography, text,
video and sound. Her work focuses on intimate stories that raise uneasy and
hidden realities related with sexuality, eating disorders and gender equality. After
graduating in journalism, she moved to New York to attend ICP photography
courses. In 2009, she enrolled at FABRICA – the Artist Residency of the
Benetton Research Centre in Italy – where she worked at the magazineCOLORS as a creative editor and
photographer for five years.

In 2015 she was nominated
for Foam’s Paul Huf Award and the Joop Swart Masterclass in 2014. The Epilogue
(Dewi Lewis, 2014) was shortlisted or the Paris Photo-Aperture First Book
Award, Kassel PhotoBook Festival and Photo España Best Book Award. Lobismuller
(RM, 2016) — holder of the Images Book Award – was exhibited at Festival Images
in Vevey in 2016.